A 13-year-old Russian-German girl has admitted to making up a story about being kidnapped and raped by Middle Eastern or North African migrants in a case that outraged Germans and caused far-right protests in Russia.

The aim of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU powers in the Greek debt crisis is “apparently to humiliate Tsipras and his government in preparation for its early replacement with a more pliable administration,” writes Seamus Milne, associate editor of The Guardian.

An investigation by the Berlin-based newsroom CORRECT!V reveals that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed by a Russian Air Defense Brigade operating on Ukrainian territory, without displaying national emblems.

Klaus-Heidi. That's the name the German airline company dared Swedes to change their moniker to this October in exchange for an all-expenses-paid trip to Berlin. Little did they know so many people would actually do it.

An assortment of sculptures once derided by the Nazis as prime examples of "degenerate art" -- complete with a Third Reich-sponsored show under that heading -- has been partly recovered and reunited for a comeback exhibit at Berlin's Neues Museum.